The National’s Sport cover for the Thursday, December 17 issue, featuring Jose Mourinho as speculation swirls about his Chelsea future.
Osman Samiuddin writes about the situation, specifically as it relates to Mourinho and more broadly – manager sackings, the spectacle they are, are quite fun no?
“This is a dark and wild hour, but it is also an irresistible one, pulling us all in with the same force with which a lynch mob sucks people in. Boots first, fists to follow, then release, as if a fever has just been broken.
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“How can one not enjoy the days before a manager is about to be sacked?
“Such is the roiling in the world of Jose Mourinho currently. It is OK to admit to yourself that Mourinho being the manager about to get the sack intensifies the pleasures of the ritual a thousand times over.
“It is not just the schadenfreude of watching a prickly, abrasive and sure, widely disliked, man fall. That plays a part, but really it is the overwhelming drama, the immenseness of the spectacle that comes with everything Mourinho.”
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